BioASQ challenge on large-scale biomedical semantic indexing and question answering

(part of the CLEF 2015 QA track to take place in Toulouse, France, 8-11 September, 2015)

Web site: bioasq.org/
twitter: @bioasq
CLEF-QA site: nlp.uned.es/clef-qa/

The BioASQ challenge consists of two different tasks (Task 3a and Task 3b).

If you are interested in any of the following areas:

• Large-scale and hierarchical classification
• Machine learning
• Semantic Indexing, semantic similarity
  

then you may want to participate in BioASQ Task 3a (large-scale biomedical semantic indexing).
More information at http://bioasq.org/participate/challenges#Task3a.

If you are interested in any of the following areas:

 
• Question answering from unstructured and structured data
 
• Single and multi-document summarization
 
• Information retrieval and passage retrieval
 
• Semantic indexing, semantic similarity and reasoning
 
• Machine learning, classification, learning to rank
 
• Named-entity recognition and disambiguation
 
• Information extraction, fact checking, relation extraction
 
• Textual entailment
 
• Natural-language generation

then you may want to participate in BioASQ Task 3b (biomedical semantic QA).
More information at http://bioasq.org/participate/challenges#Task3b.

Important dates:

 
• Task 3a: You can join anytime from February 02, 2015 onwards. New data sets will be released weekly.
 
• Task 3b: You can join on ANY of the following dates:
   
  • March 04, 2015
   
  • March 18, 2015
   
  • April 01, 2015
  • April 15, 2015
   
  • April 29, 2015

Detailed schedule at http://bioasq.org/participate/schedule

Training data for both tasks available at http://participants-area.bioasq.org/

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